EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

Southland Times, Issue 17492, 22 April 1915, Page 6

EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

Of!: BOY'S IN' EGYPT. A TKOOPKK’S UKTTKtt. iSpecidl t ( ' tiie Times.) I‘HPISTI’HI'KCH. April 21. vt*<l our Zealand mall yesterday/ 1 a, Christchurch truopor wrote From Zeiiung Camp (Kpypt), on March 21, "and now everybody is discussing ru> articles in the newspapers on the behaviour of the troops and the stabIdrxjc cases. As far as our men are concerned it is all bunkum, as is only to be expected. There arc a few ‘‘rummies” in the force, but taking: the men as a whole they have behaved remarkably well. A threat deal of the trouble can be put down to the illicit whisky seller^ —natives who are ready to sell any vile collection to anybody they can hold cf. A few mouthfuls of this allested whisky makes a man see red and then the fun begins/* SAMOAN KKTniXKD TROOPERS APCKLAXP. April 21. A larce ir.eetiim «*f Auckland men who have returned from rhunoa to-night decided to approach tin* authorities with a view to obtaining tto-ir consent that they should go forward to the front in one body instead of being divided among the different reinforcement drafts.